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Article #58Re: Sprint Link Thread
From: James E Robinson
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 00:00
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On Wed, 23 Apr 1997 09:41:56 -0400, Jimmy Grewal <jkg4@duke.edu> wrote:
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>Up until this year, Duke's service provider was MCI. They offered a far
>better service, one which proved to be less attractive (more $) than
>Sprint's. It seems the decision to switch to Sprint was made without
>careful consideration of the major differences in quality between the
>two providers.
>
>Jimmy.
I do believe you fail to recall the numerous problems with the MCI link
to Atlanta. So bad that MCI moved the link from Atlanta to
Greensboro....at least our link to DC via Sprint has been reasonably
stable as compared to MCI, if only we could get a packet *though* DC,
now that would be cool.
James
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